1501:31-9-03
Regulations on the use of firearms on division owned or controlled areas.

(A) On any state public hunting area, or on any area under
control of the division of wildlife by virtue of a lease, or agreement, it
shall be unlawful for any person:

(1) To hunt within an area posted with "Safety Zone" signs on a
cooperative or a controlled hunting area, without the prior permission of the
landowner or tenant in control of such safety zone.

(2) To shoot a fully automatic firearm on a division owned,
administered or controlled area including target ranges. Provided further, it
shall be unlawful to use any trigger assisting devices to alter a firearm to
shoot like a fully automatic firearm.

(3) To hunt within an area posted with division of wildlife "No
Hunting Zone" signs.

(4) To use a rifle, pistol, revolver,
shotgun or other firearm at any time except while lawfully trapping, or hunting
wild animals, or lawfully target practicing on a designated division of
wildlife target range.

(B) On any designated division of
wildlife target range, it shall be unlawful for any person:

(1) To target practice at any time other
than from sunrise to sunset daily or outside of the posted hours of
operation.

(2) To shoot in any direction
other than from the firing line down range to the target on any division of
wildlife target range.

(3) To use any type of target,
other than a single sheet of paper on a division of wildlife target range,
except that clay targets may be used on division of wildlife target ranges
equipped for trap and skeet only.

(4) To use a shotgun or rifle loaded with any
projectile other than shot on a designated shotgun range.
To use any shotgun or rifle loaded with any projectile
other than single projectiles on designated rifle ranges , except that the
patterning of shotguns using shot is permitted on designated rifle or pistol
ranges.

(5) To fail to leave a division of
wildlife shooting range when so ordered by a division of wildlife employee.

(6) To violate any range rules
established and posted at any division of wildlife target range.

(7) To use any explosive target that when shot will
cause another explosion to occur.

(8) To enter a division of
wildlife class "A" range before he or she signs in on a form provided by the
range attendant.

(9) To fire any weapon in a repeated manner that
causes the person firing the weapon to fail to completely control the muzzle of
the weapon.

(C) Areas having limited or no firearm use:

(1) It is unlawful for any person to use a rifle, pistol, or
revolver at any time on the Lake park, Aquilla, state public hunting
areas.

(2) It is unlawful for any person to use a rifle, pistol, or
revolver at any time on the Auburn marsh and Grant lake state public hunting
areas. Shotguns may be used only to take migratory birds, rabbits, pheasants,
squirrel, and quail during the open season prescribed for such species or on
designated target range areas.

(D) Supervised rifle and pistol ranges shall be designated
class A target ranges. Class A ranges are located at the following wildlife
areas: Spring Valley, Deer Creek, Grand river, Delaware and Woodbury. It shall
be unlawful for persons age eighteen or older to use class A ranges except when
the person has made application and received from the chief of the division of
wildlife a "Range Permit," the fee for which shall be twenty-three dollars and
a one dollar writing fee annually. The "Range Permit" shall begin the first day
of March of the current year and expire on the last day of February of the
following year. Provided further, individuals who do not hold an annual "Range
Permit" may use the class A ranges for a fee of four dollars and a one dollar
writing fee per day. Persons seventeen and under must be accompanied by an
adult holding a valid "Range Permit." There shall be a four dollar fee for
reissuing a range permit.

(H) It shall be unlawful to use a class A range unless the
shooter first registers with the range supervisor.

(I) It shall be unlawful to use, place, or shoot at any target
on a class A or class B range except in the designated target area, or to shoot
from any place except the firing line.

(J) It shall be unlawful to leave target materials, other than
clay pigeons on any range owned or controlled by the division.

(K) It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot a cannon on
any division range.

(L) It shall be unlawful for any person to use tracer
ammunition on any division of wildlife owned, controlled, or administered
property.

(M) It shall be unlawful for any person to use a division of
wildlife target range when designated closed.

(N) It shall be unlawful to use any shot size larger than
number 6 lead or number 4 steel on a class C range.

(O) It shall be unlawful to use any firearm for target practice
on a class D range.

(P) It shall be unlawful to use arrows tipped with a broadhead
on any division of wildlife archery ranges, except that arrows tipped with
broadheads may be used in designated target areas specially provided for their
use.

(Q) All definitions set forth in rule
1501:31-1-02 of the
Administrative Code shall apply to this rule.